You may never have heard of this single-celled alga, but sailors and fishermen know its effect very well: the P. lunula algae are the organisms that occasionally make the sea glow blue.

Europe's water bodies are in poor condition: more than half of them are heavily polluted with chemicals. This is hardly ...

Canada has more lakes than any other country in the world, with a huge diversity of lake sizes, depths, shapes, water ...

In herU.K. lab, Onyeaka is growing Chlorella vulgaris, a green single-celled algae about 2 to 10 microns in diameter — roughly the width of a strand of spider silk. She and a graduate student ...

Many phytoplankton are microscopic, and they range from single-celled algae to bacteria to protists, which aren’t plants or animals. One thing they all have in common: They require sunlight.

So far researchers are trying to find the best strand of the single-celled plant that is most effective. Algae ingests CO2 and releases oxygen, but it's also laden with oils that can be used to ...

Stentors form a symbiotic relationship with algae that gives them a greenish-blue color. The algae feed on stentors’ waste products while sharing some nutrients with their host. Stentors are among the ...

For more precise delivery, scientists are recruiting motile, single-celled organisms as vehicles that transport drugs to specific sites ... the Nobel Prize-winning method that uses rapid reactions to ...